Washington, United States – AFP The United States on Wednesday condemned recent Iranian strikes in Pakistan, Iraq and Syria, which Tehran has claimed were carried out against “anti-Iranian terrorist groups.” “So we do condemn those strikes. We’ve seen Iran violate the sovereign borders of three of its neighbors in...
ISLAMABAD/ISTANBUL (AA) – Pakistan on Thursday said it struck “terrorist hideouts” in Iran, less than two days after Tehran launched airstrikes which Islamabad called an “unprovoked” violation of its airspace. “This morning Pakistan undertook a series of highly coordinated and specifically targeted precision...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan’s foreign minister has told his Iranian counterpart that Tehran’s airstrikes inside his country caused serious damage to bilateral ties between the two countries. Caretaker Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani received a telephone call from Hossein Amir-Abdollahian after Islamabad recalled its ambassador from Tehran. I...
BEIJING – AFP China has urged Pakistan and Iran to show restraint, after Islamabad said Tehran had carried out an air strike on its territory that killed two children. Mao Ning, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, said: “China has always advocated that relations between countries should be handled in accordance with the basic no...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan on Wednesday recalled its ambassador from Tehran following Iranian airstrikes in southwestern Balochistan province. “Last night’s unprovoked and blatant breach of Pakistan’s sovereignty by Iran is a violation of international law and the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,” said F...
ISTANBUL (AA) – In a big relief for some politicians in Pakistan, the top court of the South Asian nation on Monday ended lifetime disqualification of lawmakers. The Supreme Court of Pakistan, however, ruled that convicted parliamentarians can be barred from holding public office for five years. The judgement comes as a big relief for [&hellip...
Peshawar, Pakistan – AFP A roadside bomb killed at least five police officers deployed to protect polio vaccination workers in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, officials said. “A police truck transporting around 25 policemen for anti-polio campaign duties was targeted by an IED (improvised explosive device),” Anwar ul Haq, a ...
ISLAMABAD / KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least 28 security personnel and 27 suspected militants were killed on Tuesday in three separate incidents in northwestern Pakistan, including a shooting and bomb attack, officials said. The incidents took place in different parts of Dera Ismail Khan district of the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa p...
NEW DELHI (AA) – India’s top court on Monday upheld the legality of legislation passed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in 2019 that stripped the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region of its standing as a state as well as its special status. “We hold the exercise of presidential power to issue constitutional ord...
KARACHI / NEW DELHI (AA) – Pakistan has rejected the Indian parliament’s legislation on the future of the Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir, dubbing it a “farce.” India’s parliament on Wednesday passed the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization (Amendment) Bill 2023 and the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill 2023....
